Talk:Car-free zone

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It is difficult to restrict this to deliberate car free zones since many "natural" or "historical" car free zones have often in the past (or recently) resisted attempts to bring motor vehicles in. Many Italian hill towns offer cases of subsequent legislation making the zones offcially car-free or of making the car free area larger, encompassing larger streets.

We now list examples of both types. --Erauch 03:39, 1 Sep 2004 (UTC)

- Car Free Zones are not necessarily pedestrian streets, eg sark, and so they should be kept as separate articles. jmd 05:30, 2 September 2005 (UTC)

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[edit] Attribution

Is it within the Wikipedia norm to attribute the photograph in the caption? --Erauch 03:39, 1 Sep 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Merge!

I'm gonna go ahead and merge these two article with a simple cut-and-paste. Banana04131 01:34, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] First Mall Clarification

Someone with more knowledge should note that the Northgate Mall is actually the first mall, depending on your definition of "mall". [[User:{jigabu killer}|Sycomonkey]] 23:02, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] "Carfree" or "Car-Free" ?

The carfree movement now uses the non-hyphenated spelling almost to the exclusion of the hyphenated form. J.H. Crawford 1 May 2006

[edit] Need for Separate Articles

"Pedestrian-"unfriendly" is not the same as "carfree." Some areas that still admit cars can be regarded as pedestrian-friendly (such as the Dutch "woonerf" or "home zone), but these places cannot be regarded as carfree in the sense in which the word is used by people in the movement. "Carfree" means literally that--there are never any cars (but sometimes emergency vehicles and in some cases also delivery vans). J.H. Crawford 1 May 2006

"Pedestrian-friendly" as Joel explains is not only different from "carfree', it is also an important safety and quality of life activity in intself which merits its own place here. What we need is to improve the entry. (When I have time, he pleads.) ericbritton 17:38, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Zermatt

What about Zermatt

Zermatt bans internal-combustion vehicles (with a few exceptions for residents), but it has a number of electric passenger vehicles used to shuttle people and goods around. It is not totally "car free". TiffaF 09:05, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Santana Row - not Carfree zone

Santana Row permits cars through all streets - though there are wider pedestrian walkways than normal, and pedestrian sections between car lanes.

[edit] The Distillery District in Toronto - Carfree?

Using www.thedistillerydistrict.com to find the location of the district, and using Google maps' satellite view, the district seems to have plenty of parking space and roads. If there's a carfree zone there, it must be underground! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.136.88.182 (talk) 09:39, 7 June 2008 (UTC)